Workshop Dates and Facilitator contacts

Acknowledgments

The facilitator wishes to express profound appreciation to the following without whom this workshop would not have been possible:-

OERF for the sponsorship of the workshop.

The Headteacher of Gayaza High School who accepted to host the workshop despite heavy staff duties.

Workshop overview

This was the 4th face-to-face L4C workshop in our country Uganda.It brought participantsfrom 3 different schools.
Unlike in earlier workshops,this one had both partcicpants who were new to wiki skills
and those who previously had experience in wiki syntax and already had accounts on WikiEducator.
Day 1 was therefore used to bring on board the new partipants by getting basic wiki skills.
Day 2 and 3 were then used to introduce every participant to OERUG and content creation.

Venue

The venue of the workshop was Gayaza High School, computer lab

Participants

In all there were 14 participants,
Of these,3 were females and 11 males.

Workshop Proceedings

Day 1: Objectives

The objectives of the day were to introduce participants to:-

WikiEducator and OERF and OERUG

Web 2.0 Technologies

Setting up a WE account

WikiMedia editing and formatting

Day 1: Proceedings

The day stated a bit late at 9:30am instead of the scheduled 8:00am because of the late reporting of many participants.
However the day later picked pace and all planned activities were carried out as per the days time table.

Day 1: Achievements

By the end of the day,participants were able to:-

Acquaint themselves with WE and OERF

Open acounts on WE

Do basic editing and formatting.

Days 2 and 3: Objectives

The objectives of days 2 and 3 were:-

Take stock of acquired skills in Day 1

Create and link pages.

Insert images and other file types.

Colaborative page editing and interactions

Some content creation

Pedagogical templates

Wiki strucures and free content

Days 2 and 3: Proceedings

Typically,each of the days started with a 30- min practical session to finish off assignments from previous day.

Folowed by a recap of the previous day's work through an out door flash light session

Introduction to OERUG

Pedagogical and navigation templates

Days 2 and 3: Achievements

Lessons Learnt

Late coming can be curbed with mutual agreement with the particpants about time of start and end of workshop

Time for acquiring basic computer literacy has to be factored in the planning.

A low cost dial-up connection should be put in place as a risk mitagation strategy in case the normal channel is disrupted as is usually the case

Recommendations

The workshops can also be take place during term time when the schools are on unlike only in the holidays as previously believed.

Editing with open office be encouraged during the workshops CDs with it be distributed other than downloads because bandwidth is small.

Meetings for national teams be organised soon to help with technical support and way forward.

Participants to take ownership of their school's pages and act as ambassadors